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Importance and Best Practices of Maintaining a Fixed Asset Register

There are still countless medium & small-size organizations that are utilizing spreadsheets or manual methods for asset tracking & storing asset information. This traditional method can be used until small has extremely limited assets or countable assets. But when organizations grow asset numbers grow as well and spreadsheet utilization becomes less effective due to inaccuracy.

Understanding the Role of a Data Steward

Many years ago, in my earliest IT jobs in Omaha, Nebraska, I realized the field of data was going to continue to evolve and, as such, there would always be a need for people who worked with and understood data. Regardless of which industry someone worked in—financial, medical, governmental, transportation, or retail—someone would have to work with and maintain business data, or the business would fail. This realization led me into the world of databases and SQL Server.

Why IT Asset Management is Like Building a Jigsaw Puzzle

Think about the process of building a jigsaw puzzle. After placing every piece on the table in front of you, different colors and types, you don’t really know how they’ll form a complete picture—and you certainly don’t know if any are missing. You have little choice but to sort through everything to understand what you have and how each piece relates to another. You can see where you need to go, but nothing looks like what’s displayed on the box.

Most in-demand ITSM skills for 2022

According to Gartner, the global cloud ITSM market is expected to grow to over $12 billion by 2025. ITSM now is more important than ever (even more so, after the pandemic), and industry leaders agree. What does this mean for ITSM professionals? This blog details how the ITSM profession evolves and what technical and interpersonal ITSM skills professionals will need to excel in 2022 and beyond.

Can artificial intelligence really improve customer experience?

“Try turning it off and on again.” This advice normally works for my mom, but not for me. When I needed to present at an event last year, I got frustrated when I couldn’t connect to the network. The front desk at the venue referred me to technical services. “Uh-oh,” I thought. “Here we go.” But I was wrong. The technical services person quickly assessed my level of know-how and adjusted her talk track to cater to my needs.

Questions You Must Ask While Looking for Best IT Helpdesk Software

In this competitive business world, the room for mistakes is getting smaller and smaller every day. When you want to give the best service to your customers it is essential that you invest in the best IT helpdesk software. However, how will you know which software is best for your business! In this blog, we will know IT helpdesk questions with answers that will assist you in finding the best helpdesk ticketing software. So let us begin with the basic question of helpdesk ticketing software!

Helpdesk Overview | Infraon Helpdesk - Powering Customer Success and Customer Support Automation

An Affordable & Easy-to-Use Helpdesk. Helpdesk software serves as a contact point for customers and employees with questions, complaints, and other concerns. While its definition may vary from organization to organization, there seems to be a common ground that it is used for IT support. Others have used it to refer to customer support or software used to provide customer support. The bottom line is about empowering people to seek help.

How to get all your customer service channels 'smiling'

One of the first things a voice-over acting coach tells their class is that people can hear your face. Studies back that up, even pointing out that we all have “smile sense”—being able to tell if a speaker on the phone or radio is happy. The same applies to customer service. Customers can tell if the agents they speak with are happy.

How to manage medical equipment?

A hospital must have a good supply system to ensure that it never runs out of medical supplies, such as pharmacy stock, and never puts a patient’s health at risk. Having an up-to-date inventory can solve many problems related to medical equipment and inventory management. The use of a healthcare and medical asset tracking management software allows you to centralize the information of your equipment and pharmaceutical products and to facilitate their management.

Cloud vs. On Premise: Which is Better?

With the wide range of services and flexible pricing models offered by providers, more and more organizations are moving their businesses to the cloud. According to Gartner, enterprise spending on the cloud has grown 18% in 2021 and is expected to be around 14.2 % of the total enterprise IT spending by 2024. With the growth of IoT, AI, and machine learning, we can expect more computing to shift to the cloud.